The somatization of structural friction: deciphering the surge of adolescent self-harm in post-transition China. [PDF]
Yan WJ, Ruan QN, Xu D.
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Clinical Characteristics of Gastrointestinal Malignancy and Validation of the IDIOM Model Among Patients With Iron Deficiency Anemia in Thailand. [PDF]
Titsisaeng K +9 more
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This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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A ritual way of ageing well: a qualitative study of a comprehensive, culturally grounded ritual-based health programme for older adults in urban China. [PDF]
Zhang X, Wang Q.
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
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The Rebel Body: The Subversive Meanings of Illness. [PDF]
Scheper-Hughes N +2 more
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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From fear to faith: older adults' emergency care journey in rural Turkey. [PDF]
Kelle Ö, Yaman S.
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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